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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1929
Page
8
The Vernal Express reports a busy period with marriages, births, and community notices. It lists a marriage license, a first grandchild, club activities, cancer patients, and residents traveling to Salt Lake City and Europe, along with a large roundup of local visitors and school preparations.
Visitation from Salt Lake City and Casa Grand noted in Vernal with multiple families visiting relatives. A Saturday night raid by Route County authorities netted twenty two arrests as prohibition efforts surged. Engagement announced for Ellen Cannon and Byron Glover set for August 28 at the Salt Lake Temple.
A dozen bankers met in Price to arrange a regional meet on September 7. Activities include golf at Carbon Country Club, a noon luncheon by First National of Price, and a dinner at the Carbon Tabernacle with toastmasters from Emery County and Moab. Topics cover cooperative advertising, association rules, and banking policies with leaders from Uintah and San Juan counties and Utah state banks.
Leonard Slaugh, local trapper, trapped and killed a large mountain lion on Hoy Mountain near Pot Creek about forty miles northeast of Vernal. The animal, believed to weigh around 175 pounds, had killed several sheep before being shot. Slaugh brought the lion to Vernal and displayed it.
The Uintah High School announces its 1929 1930 teaching staff led by Principal Robert Pixton. The corps includes Deant Ben im Pometic Scene Dallas Johnson, Coy Fife in art Kathryn Taylor dramatic art, Marva Hudson physical education, Goodrich manual training, Harold Lundell Smith Hughes, Calvin Marshall science, Reed Merit political science, Dunn Taylor physical education, Ellis Wilcox, Lloyd Winn music, Chas Levis art, L Richens junior high, NG Sowards junior high, with Tor commercial department pending.
Announcement from Vermilion notes Zelph Calder and Miss Tess Peterson of Salt Lake City plan to marry at the Salt Lake Temple on September 4. Peterson is the daughter of Mr and Mrs A Peterson, while Calder, a Vermilil resident, is known in local automobile circles and is a University of Utah graduate pursuing law at the institution.
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